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The number of accidents at Mid Canterbury schools is on the rise, and it’s hitting taxpayers in the pocket.

However, a local principal believes allowing children to take measured risks is “part of Kiwi culture”.

Accidents at schools in the Ashburton District have jumped by 28 per cent from 2010, according to figures released by

the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC).

In 2014, 524 claims were made to ACC for accidents that occurred at schools in the district, with treatment costing the country over $92,000.

That number had leapt from 2010, when 407 claims were received.

The most common accidents included loss of balance, collisions, or being struck by a person or animal.

The number of national claims has also increased, rising by 18 per cent over the same period.

However, Mid Canterbury Principals’ Association president Chris Murphy believes children should be given the opportunity to take risks.

“I’m a firm believer in that, but not everybody is,” he said.

“It comes back to that theory, that if the children have the opportunity to take measured

risks when they’re younger, they’re less likely to take those un-measured risks in fast cars when they’re older.”

There would always be accidents no matter how hard schools tried to mitigate them, but most injuries were minor, he said.

Wakanui School principal Hilary Boyce said it was important for pupils to be allowed to take some risks.

“I think that in a controlled,

semi-safe environment, kids can test themselves without fear of too much damage,” she said.

Mr Murphy believed most Mid Canterbury schools were “quite liberal” in their approach to activities. “There’s a couple of schools in Auckland that made headlines for allowing their kids to play bullrush and things, and you know, we’ve always had that idea,” he said.

“We all share that idea, that is, allowing kids to be kids.”

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Liam Payne buys parents new home One Direction star Liam Payne has reportedly gifted his parents a new STG400,000 pound home in England. Payne purchased the house near his childhood home in Wolverhampton, according to Britain’s The Sun newspaper. A source tells the publication, “Liam thinks the world of his parents and it pains him to leave his family behind when he is on tour. He is also a shrewd operator. At 21, he has shown excellent awareness of the importance of investments.

1D won’t last forever but Liam has already secured several million in bricks and mortar.”

The news comes days after it was reported Payne purchased a STG5.1 million pound luxury mansion for himself in Surrey, England.

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Ladyhawke coy on wedding Phillipa ‘Pip’ Brown – aka Ladyhawke – exchanged wedding vows near her hometown of Masterton yesterday with Auckland-based actor, comedian and musician Madeleine Sami, according to undisclosed sources. Brown was with a wedding party at her Masterton family home yesterday morning and declined to speak about the ceremony, which was understood to have been held at Te Parae Homestead wedding and private function centre east of the town. A spokeswoman for the centre declined to comment on reports of the celebrity wedding yesterday.

Brown, a Chanel College old girl who was raised in Masterton, won six New Zealand Music Awards in 2009 including Album of the Year and Single of the Year, and also took the Aria Music Awards for Breakthrough Artist Album and Breakthrough Artist Single in the same year, also winning a nomination in the NME Awards for Best Solo Artist. Sami has appeared in numerous New Zealand stage productions and network television shows including Shortland Street, the Super City series, Outrageous Fortune, and Top of the Lake.

Diaz rep confirms Madden wedding Cameron Diaz has confirmed she is a newlywed. A spokesman for the actress, Brad Cafarelli, says Diaz married musician Benji Madden on Tuesday (NZ time). Cafarelli says the couple wed in an intimate ceremony at their Los Angeles home. It’s the first marriage for the 42-year-old actress and the 35-year-old rocker. Madden’s twin brother and band mate, Joel Madden, is married to Nicole Richie. Diaz’s most recent film credits include Annie, Sex Tape and The Other Woman.

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A human tooth was reportedly served with french fries at a McDonald’s in Japan last year - the latest in a series of woes involving contaminated nuggets and a chip shortage. A customer complained to the Japanese arm of the fast food giant after finding a foreign object in a serving of potatoes from an outlet in Osaka, television networks said. The item had apparently been deep-fried. Independent investigations ordered by McDonald’s determined it was a tooth, broadcasters said. A statement from McDonald’s given to the woman, obtained by a TV station, said the object was “believed to be a tooth”. “I received an apology only when the store manager came over,” the customer, whose name was not revealed, told the JNN network. “The manager didn’t really talk about how it got in and what action they will take in the future.”

The incident is the latest public relations setback for the firm, which has seen its reputation suffer in Japan. McDonald’s has previously confirmed a customer found a piece of vinyl inside a chicken nugget sold by an outlet in the northern city of Misawa, and there was a similar case of contamination at a Tokyo branch.

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Martin laughs off death hoax Singer and The Voice mentor Ricky Martin has shot down reports of his death with an Instagram post from “heaven”. Martin’s “demise” became a hot topic on the Internet over the weekend, but like so many other recent celebrity death reports, it turned out to be a hoax. The Livin’ La Vida Loca singer laughed off the death hoax on Monday with a playful post on Instagram.

He uploaded a photograph of the view from his oceanside retreat and added the caption, “Hello from #heaven.” Martin also posted a shot of himself admiring a Puerto Rican sunset, captioning that shot “#Sunset in #heaven”.

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■ DRINK-DRIVING LAWS

Personal breathalysers popular

By Daisy HuDson

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Personal breathalysers may be flying off the shelves, but concerns have been raised over their reliability.

A local retailer says reusable breathalysers have sold out in his store following a spike in popularity in the lead-up to Christmas.

However, a local member of the hospitality industry does not

believe store bought breathalysers are reliable.

The increased interest in the devices comes after stricter drink-driving laws came into effect in December.

For Ashburton Repco branch manager Paul James, the new drink-driving laws were proving to be good for business.

Mr James said his store had sold out of alcohol breath meters, and he believed his suppli-

ers may have sold out too.

“There’s definitely been an increase in sales,” Mr James said.

According to Mr James, business owners had been particularly eager to purchase the devices.

“I was amazed that there were so many business owners coming in and buying them for their staff,” he said. “I thought that was quite incredible.”

Despite the popularity of

breathalysers, Ashburton Trust chief executive Giles Beal said none of the trust’s venues stocked the devices.

“None of our sites do or would stock them,” he said.

Advice from the Hospitality Association of New Zealand was to “not go anywhere near those things”, Mr Beal said.

He believed part of the reasoning was that breathalysers needed to be calibrated regular-

ly to be accurate, and it was also risky to advise people on their drinking limits.

“We’d obviously be on tenuous ground if you started advising customers about how much they can drink,” he said.

“It’s an individual decision, and we serve them responsibly.”

Mr Beal believed breathalysers bought in stores were not as accurate as police devices, and could not be relied on.

■ ASHBURTON ICE CREAMS

Dairy sticking with the super-sized triple scoop By sue newman

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Ice creams might be its business, but Ashburton’s Lizzie’s Dairy has no intention of challenging tiny Waipapa in the Bay of Islands for the record of making New Zealand’s biggest ice cream.

Waipapa might make a 2.85kg, 15 scoop monster called Highway 10 to Hell and a more modest 10 scoop, 1.9kg Death by Ice Cream delight, or the seven scoop Gutbuster, but staff at Lizzie’s say they’ll be sticking with their super-sized triple scoop.

The thought of juggling 15 or even 10 scoops atop a single cone had staff member Shahana Ingles laughing.

“We haven’t had anyone ask for more than our triple cones because our sizing is already pretty big,” she said.

Lizzies might not be challenging for super-sized ice cream records, but it is keeping up with the best of the rest when it comes to ice creams and ice cream flavours.

A recent national poll on ice cream flavours saw the perennial favourite hokey pokey retain its number one slot, and that experience has been mirrored at Lizzie’s.

“It’s always popular and when tourists come in that’s the one they go to,” Ms Ingles said.

Chocolate and vanilla come in second and third, but at Lizzie’s the top four is rounded out with boysenberry, cookies and cream and goldrush.

“The other one that’s pretty popular is goody gumdrops and that’s not just with the kids, we get a lot of old men come in who like this one too.”

Of the 21 flavours lined up to tempt ice cream fans, mochachino is the least favourite.

Nationally bottom seller is neopolitan but that’s a flavour that’s missing from the Lizzie’s chiller.

The rolled ice cream might have plenty of competition from frozen treats on a stick, but on hot days, Lizzie’s staff are up to their elbows in the ice cream boxes almost non-stop, she said.

“We roll them by the hundreds.”

Chocolate dipped ice creams might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but they still have a good following, Ms Ingles said, in spite of their high mess factor.

“The secret to good chocolate is to keep a light bulb going underneath, give a good stir before you dip and Another day, another ice cream - Bev Hurst rolls up another summer treat. don’t take it right down to the cone.”

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■ LOTTO LUCKY TOWN

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Ashburton one lucky town

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It’s official, Ashburton is the second luckiest town in New Zealand.

A big Powerball win last year helped Ashburton shoot up the Lotto Lucky Towns’ ranking, putting us well behind the Lotto hotspot, first placed Kaikoura, but well clear of Franklin in third.

By virtue of its small population of just 3621, Kaikoura earned top place after a local couple won $8.6 million with a Big Wednesday ticket in February. That gave the locals a paper Lotto earning of $2432 per head.

FBI fights Mona’s claim to millions Mona Dotcom’s $23 million claim on the seized fortune of her estranged tycoon husband Kim Dotcom is under attack by the FBI, which has raised questions over the couple’s relationship. Court documents show FBI agents searched divorce records from Guam and studied the birth dates of Dotcom’s children to fight off efforts by Mrs Dotcom to claim money seized almost three years ago.

FBI agent Rodney Hays testified the records showed Dotcom married his first wife, Lovely Vargas, three months before the date Mona Dotcom claimed her “de facto” marriage began.

Court papers said “inconsistencies” would make it harder for her to make a claim on her husband’s fortune in New Zealand courts – and cited a New Zealand government lawyer as an “expert witness”. - NZME

With Ashburton’s urban population at about19,500, our $14.2 million Powerball win in August helped us on the way to earning $506 Lotto dollars per person.

The one thing Ashburton and Kaikoura have in common is that neither town knows who their big winners were. Both tickets were claimed, both ticket holders spoke publicly, but the identity of both remains a mystery.

Kaikoura’s big winners were locals, Ashburton’s out of towners.

Ashburton’s big winner thought his ticket was worth $14,000; he was stunned when

he realised he’d missed a few zeros. He then boarded a plane, headed to Auckland and tried to collect his thoughts.

Money in the bank, he quit his job and started compiling a shopping list that would include helping his children buy their own homes and went underground.

The win meant Countdown Lotto outlet owner Graeme Moodie retired in a blaze of publicity after media haunted his outlet until the winning ticket was claimed. The outlet became the town’s hot spot for three or four weeks from punters hoping the big win was the start of a lucky streak.

Farm Road burglary Ashburton Police are investigating a burglary that occurred at a Farm Road address last weekend, where electrical items were taken.

With Mr Moodie’s retirement, the Lotto outlet has become part of the Countdown store.

Ashburton’s winning ticket was sold at Countdown which ranked fourth in New Zealand last year for the highest value Lotto family and Big Wednesday top prize tickets sold at $14.395 million.

Hornby Mall Lotto holds the record for the most prize winning tickets sold.

Franklin has made a strong start on this year’s lucky town stakes with a $10.7 million Powerball win in the first Lotto draw of 2015. This has yet to be claimed.

Domestic incident Ashburton police attended a domestic incident at 5pm on Tuesday.

Rubbish fire The Rakaia fire service were called to a rubbish fire at Chertsey at about 8.30pm on Tuesday.

Death not foul play The death of a man whose body was discovered in a deep hole on the West Coast on Tuesday was not the result of foul play, police say. The body of Kumara man Rowan Harold Kerr, 78, was found about 2.15pm by workers checking power lines following earthquakes in the central South Island. Police said Mr Kerr had fallen about 14 metres to his death.

Their investigation had established the death was not the result of foul play and the matter had been referred to the coroner.

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Denied bail The two teens accused of murdering a man at an Auckland motel have been declined bail.

Leonard Nattrass-Berquist and Beauen Daniel George WallaceLoretz, both 17, appeared yesterday in the High Court at Auckland over the death of 54-year-old Ihaia Gillman-Harris on December 27 at the Ascot Epsom Motel. The bail applications for the pair were unsuccessful yesterday but there is another hearing scheduled to be heard on January 20 to consider electronicallymonitored bail.

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Body identified The body of a man found in Timaru’s port yesterday has been identified as that of missing man Donald MacLeod, police say. Mr MacLeod, 76, was last seen leaving his Timaru home early on Sunday.

The police national dive squad recovered Mr MacLeod’s body shortly before 9am. His death has been referred to the coroner.

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Getting to grips with fire equipment Firefighter Mark Allred, shows Mania-o-Roto Venturer Maddison Gourlay, 15, the ins and outs of how to use the equipment stored on a fire appliance, in Methven yesterday. Miss Gourlay was one of a number of scouts and venturers who learned about fire safety on the Scouts’ Staveley Adventure Camp which is taking place this week.

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Baby girl seriously injured Business Neighbours of a Christchurch flat at the centre of a major police probe into a 1-year-old baby girl’s serious head injuries say they didn’t even know there was a child living at the property.

Police swooped on the Linwood flat around midnight after the young child was admitted to Christchurch Hospital on Tuesday night.

The injuries have only been described as “unexplained”

by Detective Senior Sergeant Scott Anderson.

The baby’s parents are working with police, he said.

A scene examination is under way at the Worcester Street flat – the front one of three units.

A large blue tent has been erected in the front yard.

Blue-suited forensic experts have been seen going in and out of the flat.

Mr Anderson said inquiries could lead to searches of other city addresses.

“Police are also working with medical staff, the baby’s

parents and extended family,” Mr Anderson said.

The baby is currently being treated at Christchurch Hospital’s intensive care unit.

“Police have spoken to a number of people in relation to this incident who have all been forthcoming in supporting the investigation,” Mr Anderson said.

“At this stage, police are not seeking anyone else in relation to this incident and are not in a position to make any further comment while the

investigation is taking place.”

Neighbours were yesterday in shock over the incident.

They say an Indian couple moved there less than two months ago.

Many of the neighbours did not wish to be named but they all spoke about the woman of the household hardly ever venturing outside. Most say they didn’t know there was a baby there. The woman of the house, in her mid-20s, is said to have been pregnant with a second child. - NZME

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Taking aim at the BASE holiday programme Isaac Diamond, 11, tested his skills with a bow and arrow at the BASE youth centre holiday programme on Tuesday.

Those who attended the programme had the chance to practice archery, popularised recently by the success of movies such as the Hunger Games, at the Sports Hall on Tancred Street. The BASE youth centre programme caters for young people aged between 10 and 14 years.

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starting to pick up at local gyms

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Getting fit and shedding a couple of kilos are two things that are high on many Mid Cantabrians’ New Year’s resolution lists and Ashburton gyms are preparing for a number of new arrivals over the next few weeks.

Curves Ashburton franchisee, Viv Williams, said this week was the gym’s first week back after the holiday break, and it was already busy.

“For a women’s gym it’s a little different, often women are looking after children on school holidays.”

Each year is unique though, sometimes January is slow and sometimes not – but this year has started off to be a good one, she said.

Snap Fitness Ashburton personal trainer, Cint Jade, said Snap had been busy now that people were back at work, but expected business to pick up even more when the school term begins.

The trend is similar at other gyms around town.

Finesse Fitness for Women owner John Moore said the first week of the New Year was generally quiet and then it begins to pick up.

Gym Company owner Frank Connolly said numbers at his gym always start to pick up when the school term resumed.

“It’s all to do with free time,” he said.

The first week of January was often quiet as many people were still on holiday, he said, but that was normal.

Classes at the mixed gym start back next week, and that is often when more people start coming along, Mr Connolly said.

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Initially the highway will be reduced to a single lane

with a 30 kilometre per hour speed restriction, said NZ Transport Agency’s journey manager Lee Wright.

“Temporary traffic lights will control traffic movements through the works site. Motorists are warned this will result in delays of up to five minutes and they should allow extra time for their journeys. Motorists need to slow down and

observe speed restrictions through the works sites,” she said.

The work is part of the transport agency’s summer programme of annual maintenance and safety improvements and part of a numbr of maintenance and safety improvement works expected to get under way around Canterbury.

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be dusty, noisy and a general nuisance for motorists travelling through the area. However, this work is important from a safety perspective and our contractors will ensure minimal disruption and delays,” Ms Wright said.

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Plane crashes into Lake Taupo

By Sophie Ryan and patRice dougan The pilot of a skydiving plane that crashed in Lake Taupo was “brand new” in the job but an experienced pilot, says the company’s boss.

Thirteen people – six skydiving instructors, six thrillseekers and the pilot – bailed out of the plane after a suspected engine malfunction caused it to stall about 1300 metres over Lake Taupo about 12.15pm yesterday.

While the plane crashed in to the lake, everybody on board parachuted to safety.

The skydivers landed in water unhurt, but the pilot suffered scratches as he landed on-shore near a blackberry bush.

The incident comes a decade after another Skydiving Taupo plane had engine troubles, forcing an emergency bail-out.

In the 2005 incident, nine skydivers had to exit a Cessna 402 twin-engine plane at 1500 metres. The pilot returned to

Wreckage of the plane lies in Lake Taupo.

Taupo Airport, where he made an emergency landing on one engine.

Skydiving Taupo chief executive Roy Clements said he was proud of his team for getting everybody off the plane safely before yesterday’s crash.

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“The guys did exactly what they’re trained to do and as a result everyone was safe, landed safely and walked away.”

He said the “brand new” pilot had only started with the company recently. He did not disclose how long the pilot had

been flying for, but said he had “quite some experience” on the job.

“The staff we have flying our aircraft have to have a minimum of 500 hours flight experience before they can do so. That’s the minimum, and he exceeds that.

“The pilots go through emergency training for when they have a power failure, and that’s a big part of their training.”

The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said it could not comment on how long the pilot had been qualified or how much flight time he had clocked up as it “might form part of the investigation”.

Mr Clements said the skydiving instructors were all required to do a minimum of 750 jumps before they were qualified instructors, and the least experienced on board had clocked 2500 jumps.

The instructors, like the pilots, did “lots of training for what they do in an emergency situation”.

“It was just nice that everyone involved in the whole situation reacted exactly how they were trained. We’re pretty proud of all of them,” he said.

“Obviously they’re quite shaken by the event ... [but] they all said they want to get back up in a plane.”

Mr Clements had spent some time with the six customers, who praised the calm and professional way the instructors dealt with the situation.

The altitude they had jumped from was dangerous, he said.

“I’m not too sure whether the customers realised the seriousness of the situation.”

Mr Clements said the company had owned the plane for four years, and why the engine failed was a “mystery”.

He assured the public his company, which began 12 years ago and employs 30 staff, was safe.

The Transport Accident Investigation Commission (TAIC) has opened an inquiry into the incident.

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■ CELEBRATING AGE

Tinwald the perfect spot for Ron

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In one of the homes along a busy State Highway 1 at Tinwald, time moves slowly. It is away from the world of everyone rushing about, it is stepping into a world which goes back decades.

Eighty-six-year-old Ron Guthrie lives here, on the section he bought over 60 years ago.

The block was originally one-and-ahalf acres with an old villa, part of the former Wilkin farm estate, and it cost 800 pounds in 1948.

“My father told me it would be a good investment,” Mr Guthrie said.

Tinwald was a far less populated area in those days, and the villa was one of only about four houses on the whole block bordered by the highway and adjoining streets.

Mr Guthrie continued to live with his parents and leased the villa out until he married Edna Maw in 1951. The couple moved in and had four sons – Lachlan, Edwin, Ian and Andrew. Mr Guthrie had himself been one of nine siblings, three of them half-siblings.

“My mother had six boys before she had a daughter. When Edna had our fourth child she made it quite clear – if you think I’m going to be like your mother and fill the house up with boys to get a girl, you have got another thing coming,” Mr Guthrie said.

Mrs Guthrie was more than happy with four active boys, and the couple’s Tinwald location turned out to be the perfect place to bring them up. Mr Guthrie originally served an apprenticeship as a bootmaker, and later became a builder. He used his skills to construct a large swimming pool in front of the villa.

“Half the kids in Tinwald learned to swim in that pool when our kids were small, they used to bring three or four mates home each and the pool would be alive.”

As the children grew up Mr Guthrie swapped his building career for taking on a milk run. Mrs Guthrie became caretaker of Tinwald Domain. It enabled the couple to live there temporarily while Mr Guthrie pulled down the old villa.

He subdivided the one-and-a-half acres

Ashburton’s Ron Guthrie lives at the address he shared with his late wife Edna for about 60 years.

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“My wife designed it and I built it with a bit of help from her,” Mr Guthrie said.

“What I like about it we have always

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wanted privacy and we managed to build a townhouse with a bit of privacy.”

The old swimming pool remains in Mr Guthrie’s yard today, but it has now been converted for growing vegetables.

Mr Guthrie enjoys his garden, and two ponds with goldfish complement the outdoor area.

Mr Guthrie talks proudly of Mrs Guthrie, who passed away two-and-ahalf-years ago at the age of 81. He keeps her close, her ashes are in a small chest on the home’s mantelpiece.

Showing certificates on his wall, Mr Guthrie points out Edna was a Paul Harris Fellow, probably the first female in the town to be awarded the Rotary Foundation award. She was one of the first to receive The Founders Trophy in 1995, presented by the Mid Canterbury branch of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists. She received a District of Ashburton civic honour in 1997, one of the first to be issued the award by the Ashburton District Council, in recognition of outstanding community service.

Mrs Guthrie was a founding member of the Tinwald Scouts, a Tinwald Domain Board committee member, Tinwald Hall Society committee member and a foundation member of the Tinwald Kindergarten, which she and Mr Guthrie helped to build on working bees.

“She was a busy lady, she did a bit for the town.”

Mrs Guthrie was a fan of opera, and the couple never missed an opportunity to go through to Christchurch to see shows.

As a builder Mr Guthrie worked on sites throughout the South Island.

“I have seen most of the South Island through my work.”

He had also been to Australia to visit family with his oldest son living across the Tasman.

Today Mr Guthrie enjoys the Ashburton’s 206 Club weekly, and said he spent a “fair bit of time nursing cats”.

He had three cats, all of them former strays which had just turned up. They sometimes watched the fish ponds, and the odd fish would find itself at his feet inside the house, before being returned safely to the water.

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Put the blame in right place Stu Oldham

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he police and the Revenue Minister are not responsible for the alarmingly high holiday road toll and it is about time some of us started apportioning blame closer to home.

Seventeen people died on New Zealand roads over the holiday period. This was more than twice the number of the previous year and the most in the past three years.

The toll mounted even as police and social agencies continued campaigns to discourage speed and drink-driving, and to encourage holiday-time drivers to take care on the road.

Things should have been helped by a zero tolerance on speed campaign and new, tough drink-driving rules which came into force - with lots of attention - last month.

But they weren’t. Speed and alcohol were suspected in some of the fatal crashes and in many other, non-fatal ones that happened about New Zealand over Christmas.

There has since been a noisy crescendo of faux alarm from people who say the disappointing toll is proof the police zero tolerance for speed campaign did not work.

They say the road toll shows the campaign was much more about revenue gathering than keeping roads safe. They say it targets the wrong drivers and they want it abandoned altogether.

So, just who are the right drivers if not the people breaking speed laws - or is this more a case of the right driver is anyone, anywhere else who is not someone like me?

The Christmas-time fine revenue figures might show more drivers were fined for driving too fast but it would be a leap to say this proves the campaign was about cash.

If anything, a bumper finestake will strongly suggest too many people were selfish enough to think the law should only apply to them when they decided it should.

There were few calls for “tolerance” when speeding and drink-driving campaigns coincided with lower road tolls.

Today, that silence speaks volumes.

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POLL RESULT Yesterday’s result Q: After yesterday’s earthquake, have you checked your survival kit?

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT

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W

ell, it’s over. Done and dusted.

In many Mid Canterbury homes the decorations will already be down, and in many others the occupants will be frantically packing for the big family summer holiday.

Packing includes insect bite stuff, sunburn stuff for those who forget the sunscreen. And toilet paper, there is never enough.

It doesn’t matter where you go in New Zealand, whether it is a posh country lodge or shabby old tent surrounded by the heady perfume of broom, holiday time seems to have a scent of its own.

Water is another crucial element.

Lake, river or beach it never used to matter much. But it does these days.

The other day’s Guardian told us blue green algae has invaded the area around the State Highway 1 Bridge.

I don’t think the warnings were hard enough, I have a great hatred for the pestilential slimy blacky stuff.

My last home was a couple of hundred metres from the Waikanae River, and a bit further, walking towards Kapiti Island, from the river mouth.

The signs saying No Swimming, No Dogs, and No Kids went up year after year, just after the whitebait season ended.

The idyllic Otaihanga Domain, with the river alongside, was abandoned once the algae came in, because there was nowhere safe to cool off after playing games. And dogs died.

There were always short pieces in the paper, and I twice saw people carrying convulsing pets off to their cars.

One big, strong, healthy standard poodle didn’t even make it to the vets.

But enough of the dismal stuff and more to the joys of Christmas.

I remember presents of course, but, mostly, the people, and the food.

All the old memories of

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It’s not a proper Christmas without kids.

Christmas past drifted from the kitchen this year.

Ham, turkey, lamb. New potatoes Dad dug and scraped that morning, peas, broad beans etc.

Mum and I seem to be the only ones eating broad beens. There is a secret to them you see, and I’m not sharing it if it means fewer for me.

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end, on the creamiest trifle and juiciest fresh raspberries.

But in spite of this entire largess it wasn’t the food that was the big hit. It was, as it always has been, the people.

After several strokes, we didn’t think Dad’s sister would make it from Christchurch. But lo, in she rolled in a wheelchair

One nephew’s partner who is a flight attendant got called into work, we all missed her, but no-one needed to hide their chocolate.

And the puddings, spread buffet style along a huge table.

I happened to look into the fridge at the beginning of the day, and there were five cream bottles.

They were all gone at the

ambulance.

My wonderful nephew and his delightful Irish wife, who haven’t been home since they married in Dublin earlier in the year, came over from Melbourne.

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Daniel has the most amazing ability to wind up and tease his 92-year-old grandmother, who of course adores him.

One nephew’s partner who is a flight attendant got called into work, we all missed her, but no-one needed to hide their chocolate.

Yet another nephew was spending his very first white Christmas in Norway, although he can’t have seen much of it since he was calling home and sending Facebook messages all day.

But the stars of the show were without a doubt the two babies, Harper and Eli, cousins born less than 24 hours apart.

They gurgled and smiled while being passed from hand to hand.

I can’t wait till next year, when they’ll be interested less in the wrapping paper and more in the presents.

It’s not a proper Christmas without kids.

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■ YEMEN

In brief

Suicide bomber kills 30 A suicide bomber driving a minibus full of explosives killed at least 30 people yesterday as cadets gathered near a police academy in the heart of Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, security officials and witnesses said.

The blast wounded dozens of people, officials initially said.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they weren’t authorised to brief journalists.

At the scene of the blast, the dead and wounded lay on a sidewalk against a wall. Water sprayed by firefighters to extinguish the blaze mixed with their pooled blood. A police officer’s certificate sat in it, soaked crimson. A charred taxi cab smoked near what remained of the minibus, metres from a gate for the police academy.

“What happened is we were all gathering and ... (the bomber) exploded right next to all of the police college classmates,” eyewitness Jamil al-Khaleedi told The Associated Press. “It went off among all of them, and they flew through the air.”

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.

Yemen’s local al-Qaida branch, targeted in frequent US drone strikes in the country, has carried out similar attacks in the past. Washington considers

A police investigator collects evidence from wreckage at the scene of a car bomb outside a police academy in Sanaa, Yemen.

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al-Qaida in Yemen to be the world’s most dangerous branch of the terror network as it has been linked to several failed attacks on the US homeland.

The blast comes as Shiite rebels known as Houthis seized

large areas of Yemen, including Sanaa, earlier this year as part of a protracted power struggle with President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi. Their critics view them as a proxy for Shiite Iran, charges the rebels

deny. Al-Qaida militants have targeted the rebels in bombings in the past.

An al-Qaida suicide bomber killed at least 24 people on December 31 in an attack on Houthis.

- AP

Forget trekking to the Arctic.

French tourists are opting for the luxury way to spend the night with a polar bear: beside a log fire not far from home. The only thing on ice is the champagne. Since it launched “A night at home with the bear” in October, La Fleche zoo in western France has booked up its comfy lodge overlooking Taiko the polar bear’s enclosure until the end of 2015. Safari-style lodges are part of a strategy by French animal parks to update ageing structures and attract new visitors.

They follow a worldwide trend, from Roar`n’ Snore sleep-overs at Aussie zoos, to party nights at zoos from London to Los Angeles.

La Fleche zoo, which opened in 1946, was in need of a boost when it opened its first lodge in 2013.

Visitors soon increased and the park now has eight lodges.

- AP

Gang rape arrests

Family welcomes news of murder arrests had been charged over their 20-year-old loved one’s murder.

Mr McNeill’s body was found burnt in a suitcase at a leafy reserve at Picnic Point in the city’s southwest on July 21, 2014.

He had been reported missing three days earlier. His car was later found abandoned in Cabramatta.

Mr McNeill - an ice hockey star in his childhood - had lost his way with drugs six months before his death.

The Narellan man had been involved in low-level drug dealing and pleaded guilty to a string of drug offences a month before his alleged murder.

If anything can come from his son’s death, his father hopes it’s a message about the impact of ice.

“I think it’s really important the rest of the people out there realise the dangers of this drug,” he said. “He was a good boy mixed up in ice. It was out of his control, basically.”

Adam Charbaji, 24, appeared in Bankstown Local Court yesterday after being charged with murder and conspiracy to murder.

He did not apply for bail, which was formally refused.

A 24-year-old pregnant woman will appear in court today charged with conspiracy to murder and accessory after the fact.

A third man in custody for an unrelated matter is expected to be charged this month. - AAP

■ AUSTRALIA

Bushfire claims already pass $13m Insurance losses from a bushfire burning on the outskirts of Adelaide have already passed $13 million, with more claims expected to be lodged over the coming days and weeks.

The fire, which began at Sampson Flat on Friday, has burnt through 12,500 hectares and destroyed or badly damaged 38 homes, as well as 125 other structures such as farm

Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to a multi-million-dollar settlement to compensate 15,600 Nigerian fishermen over two serious oil spills in 2008 after a three-year legal battle. The Anglo-Dutch energy giant’s Nigerian arm has agreed to pay $NZ100 million to people in Bodo, a town in southern Nigeria, Shell and the fishermen’s London-based lawyers Leigh Day said. The out-of-court settlement averted a full trial at the High Court in London and the money has been paid to the claimants’ lawyers. Each individual will receive the equivalent to around three years’ income on the Nigerian minimum wage, Leigh Day said.

- AP

Sleeping with bears

■ AUSTRALIA

Every New Year’s Eve, Dane McNeill made an effort to hug his mum when the clock struck 12. It was the haunting absence of this routine show of affection a week ago that made the occasion almost too much to bear.

“Dane’s mum really missed that. Come 12 o’clock and he wasn’t there - it was hard,” father Peter McNeill told AAP. On Wednesday, the Sydney family welcomed the bittersweet news that two people

Shell pays out

sheds and outhouses.

Four businesses have also been destroyed or badly damaged.

The town of Kersbrook in the Adelaide Hills was the worst hit after 12 homes were razed by the fire.

The Insurance Council of Australia said 350 claims had already been lodged, with insured losses of $13 million.

ICA chief Rob Whelan said the bushfire situation in South Australia remained uncertain with emergency services preparing for deteriorating weather conditions.

“More properties may be potentially vulnerable at this time, and it is critical for residents in bushfire-affected areas to ensure they follow the advice of emergency services,” Mr

Whelan said.

The ICA was liaising with the state government, emergency services and local governments to provide support and help resolve issues.

People affected by the bushfires have been advised to take pictures of damage to property and possessions as evidence for assessors, to help them process claims more quickly.

- AAP

Six men arrested for the gang rape of a Japanese tourist held hostage in India for nearly a month will appear in an identity parade later this week, a court says. The six men detained for allegedly extorting more than $NZ1081 from the 22-year-old tourist and then keeping her as a sex slave for several weeks appeared before magistrates in Kolkata, said police and prosecutors. Five of the men were arrested at the weekend on charges including rape and kidnap while a sixth person was detained on Tuesday. The victim’s ordeal began in Kolkata shortly after she arrived on November 20.

- AP

Tail piece recovered Divers and an unmanned underwater vehicle spotted the tail of the missing AirAsia plane in the Java Sea yesterday, the first confirmed sighting of any major wreckage 11 days after Flight 8501 disappeared with 162 people on board, an official said. Following days of strong currents and murky water that hindered the operation, searchers managed to get a photograph of the debris, National Search and Rescue chief Henry Bambang Soelistyo told reporters.

The find is particularly important because the all-important cockpit voice and flight data recorders, or black boxes, are located in the aircraft’s tail. Small pieces of the plane, such as seats, have previously been spotted. Soelistyo said the top priority remains recovering more bodies along with the black boxes.

- AP

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■ WAREHOUSE GROUP

Profits to fall as sales miss targets

BY TINA MORRISON

after the retailer spent hundreds of millions of dollars overhauling stores and buying new businesses the past few years. The company, which has previously forecast a rise in annual profit, will update its guidance when it releases its first half earnings on March 6.

“They have been trying to reposition the business and invest in it and it’s clearly not making much of an impact,” said Craig Stent, a director and research analyst at Harbour Asset Management, which doesn’t hold

Warehouse among its $1.2 billion in equities.

“It’s a tough environment and clearly that whole proposition may have lost its shine,” Stent said. “They are a large business so getting any growth is pretty hard in dollar terms and you have got competing offerings in the market chipping away all the time at your product offering and it’s pretty hard to compete.”

Harbour would need to see the path for growth to invest in the company again, Stent said.

“These guys have been try-

ing to get on that journey for the last two or three years and it hasn’t really materialised so it’s hard for us as a growth investor to get too excited about this sort of company.”

Stent’s comments were echoed

by Nikko Asset Management’s James Lindsay, which also no longer holds the stock among its investments.

“They have spent a lot of money over the last few years and that just hasn’t been showing great results as far as getting either top-line or bottom-

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■ LEAKY SCHOOLS

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New Zealand’s Ministry of Education has cut its estimate for the total cost of fixing leaky schools by as much as $400 million, with a damages suit against Carter Holt Harvey one of the last remaining variables.

The cost of fixing buildings that had more serious leaks will be between $1.1 billion and $1.3 billion, down from a previous estimate of $1.5 billion, acting head of education infrastructure service Rob Campbell said.

The reduced estimate was due to “programme experience and remediation costs to date,” he said in written answers to questions.

The estimated cost is down from a $1.3 billion to $1.79 billion range given to Associate Education Minister Nikki Kaye in 2013. About 90 per cent of the cost covers replacement of defective cladding.

The ministry embarked on court proceedings against cladding manufacturers in 2013, and has since settled with building materials makers James Hardie Industries and CSR. Before the settlement, James Hardie, which had been involved in a number of leaky building cases in New Zealand, took a provision of US$20.4 million, net of any third-party recover-

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and January 2014 providing updates on the liability claim, saying “there is a greater public interest in the ministry getting the best outcomes from negotiations and legal action,” and that talks are still continuing with Carter Holt Harvey, the remaining defendant in the product liability claim.

As at November 2014, the ministry’s remediation recovery programme covered 1792 buildings, of which 343 were active, 1346 were discontinued, 91 had settlements in place and 12 were on hold. In addition to the existing settlements in place, a further 57 buildings have settlements agreed in principle, Campbell said.

The cost of leaky schools was first recognised in the education ministry’s accounts in 2010 when it took a $930.4 million impairment charge on the $8.12 billion carrying value of its school building portfolio, made up of 16,981 buildings across 2,143 schools. As at June 30, 2014, that provision was $828 million, and was recalculated after 211 buildings had undergone remediation costs, prompting a reduction of $103 million from a year earlier. As at June 30, 20214, the building stock was valued at $8.32 billion.

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ies, over the liability claims as at September 30, 2013, including the ministry’s suit, and said uncertainties that existed at the time meant the cost could rise by a further US$12 million.

It later reduced that provision, with a net US$9.1 million as at September 30, 2014. The accounts for its New Zealand unit, James Hardie NZ Holdings, showed a current provision of $10.2 million and a non-current provision of $5.6 million as at June 30, 2014, compared to $17.4 million and $19.7 million a year earlier, though it’s unclear whether that includes the settlement.

CSR’s settlement with the ministry was recognised a portion of a $9.5 million provision in the 2014 accounts for its New Zealand unit.

Both of those settlements contained confidentiality clauses, and an appendix to the March 2013 report cited as a key message that arrangements were entered into to help address the risk of weather-tightness failure in existing school property, support future school property developments across the country, and maintain continuity of building supplies manufactured in New Zealand.

Campbell declined to release reports written in April 2013

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Warehouse Group, New Zealand’s largest listed retailer, expects first-half earnings to fall about 20 per cent as cold, wet spring and summer weather forced it to discount clothing and other seasonal merchandise at its ‘red sheds’ general merchandise stores and sales declined at its Noel Leeming consumer electronics chain. The shares fell 7.7 per cent.

The Auckland-based company said adjusted profit will probably drop to $37 million in the six months ending January 25, from $46.2 million in the year earlier period. The company had previously expected first-half profit would be in line with last year.

Warehouse shares are the worst performer on the NZX 50 benchmark index yesterday, following the downgrade. Investors and analysts have said they want the company to produce profit growth this financial year

line earnings uplifts,” Lindsay said. “The key driver still remains the red sheds and sales are not really going anywhere and margins are falling.”

Similarly, Nikko would need to be convinced about the growth outlook to invest again, he said.

“There would have to be a sustained period of seeing that the capex was going to be providing ongoing uplift in sales and they were going to return to growth and that to me doesn’t seem likely.”

Shares in the company touched $2.83, their lowest level since September 2012, and were recently down 24 cents at $2.87.

Warehouse shares are rated an average ‘sell’ according to the estimates of six analysts compiled by Reuters.

Warehouse said unseasonal weather meant second quarter sales and margins at its general merchandise stores missed expectations, particularly in December.

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■ IRRIGATION RESTRICTIONS

Drought threat looms l Restrictions on the Ashburton River are impacting on two irrigation schemes, but healthy flows in the district’s two big rivers are holding off drought-like conditions.

Both the Mayfield-Hinds and the Ashburton Lyndhurst irrigation companies are operating on 25 per cent restrictions, however Mayfield Hinds Irrigation’s general manager Hamish Tait said nor’westerlies in the back country had kept water levels in the Rangitata River high enough to satisfy requirements.

“We are using what we can at the moment. We’ve been lucky to get the rain in the hills, when it gets dry down here and if that doesn’t happen we are in trou-

Opuha Water Supply Ltd CEO Tony McCormick

ble,” he said.

The company is in the process of commissioning its new stor-

age facility, which will hold 6.1 million cubic metres of water, covering a surface area of about 150ha.

Irrigation restrictions are now widespread in Canterbury and Otago.

To date South Canterbury is one of the hardest hit areas, with the Opuha Dam, a foothill-fed river catchment, facing unprecedented water shortages.

The lake level is of major concern, Opuha Water Supply Ltd CEO Tony McCormick said.

“Our situation and outlook have not improved and the lake level continues to drop steadily.

“Today the lake is at 31 per cent full. We are currently on 25 per cent irrigation restrictions

and expect to move to 50 per cent restrictions next week when the lake hits another ‘trigger’ level of 25 per cent full.

“Our current predictions suggest that the lake could be fully depleted by the end of February.”

Mr McCormick said the initial problem was a lack of stored water, which was compounded by very dry conditions experienced across the South Canterbury region.

However, the Rangitata River is currently flowing at a healthy level due to good rainfall in the alps over the New Year, Ashburton Lyndhurst Irrigation Company scheme manager Jess Dargue said.

While some North Canterbury rivers are on restriction, both the Waiau and Hurunui rivers are maintaining flows and scheme restrictions look unlikely in the near future.

At this point there are no restrictions on major irrigation schemes in the Lower Waitaki, fed by the Waitaki River.

However, Waitaki Irrigators Collective policy manager Elizabeth Soal said partial restrictions affecting independent irrigators are in place on hill-fed tributary rivers including the Hakataramea, the Maerewhenua and the Awakino.

There are also restrictions, including some full restrictions, on some of the South Canterbury

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Drought conditions during the 2012-13 summer wiped more than $1 billion dollars from the New Zealand economy.

Water restrictions for irrigating farmers look set to follow a similar pattern to the 2012-13 summer, when drought conditions wiped more than $1 billion dollars from the New Zealand economy, IrrigationNZ CEO Andrew Curtis says.

“This summer once again highlights the need to fast-track alpine-fed water storage infrastructure in both the South and North islands,” Mr Curtis said.

“Despite the focus upon irrigation development over the past five years, New Zealand has

made very limited progress in this space.

“We have modernised and improved our irrigation distribution systems but have failed to invest in alpine water storage to our detriment.”

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large coastal streams and waterways, including parts of the Waihao River, Buchanans Creek and the Sir Charles Creek.

In Otago, supplementary permits off the Kakanui River have ceased with the first minimum flow alert being active, and the river is approaching its absolute minimum flow, which would mean full restrictions kick-in.

Parts of North Otago are extremely dry, with the area receiving a third of the historical average rainfall since August.

“For us down here, it’s much, much drier than in 2012-13.

Some are saying it’s the driest it’s been in 10 years, so the restrictions will bite even harder,” Ms Soal said.

storage key more reliable supply.

“We’re losing sight of the prize that reliable alpine-fed irrigation water storage could bring to both the environment and economy.

“Certainty of water supply allows investment in SMART irrigation technologies that greatly improve nutrient management and production.

“There are also direct benefits from storage including the augmentation of summer river flows or being able to release flushing flows that cleanse rivers of summer algal growth.”

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Tinwald sale prices take a dive Dry conditions, water restrictions and falling schedules combined to bump prices down at this week’s Tinwald sheep sale.

Heavy, woolly prime lambs fetched $115-$121, medium weights $95-$110, and lighter lambs, $80-$90.

Two-tooth ewes made $70-$76.

Top weight woolly prime ewes fetched

$95-$110, mediums $80-$90 and light sheep $50-$65.

Store lamb prices also eased back, in line with the prevailing drier conditions.

A line of medium weight down-cross lambs realised $60-$67.

Good crossbred lambs sold for $55$66, with smaller lambs fetching $44$45.

Cows and their calves communicate using calls that are individualised in a similar way to human names, scientists have discovered.

Researchers found it was possible to identify particular cows and calves from the exclusive sounds they made.

The British team spent 10 months studying the ways cows talked to their young.

They identified two distinct maternal calls low sounds when a mother was close to her calf, and louder, higher pitched calls when they were out of visual contact.

Calves, in return, called out to their mothers when they wanted to start suckling.

But the most important finding was that all three calls were individualised – reserved for a particular cow and calf so that each recognised the other.

Lead scientist Dr Monica Padilla de la Torre, from the University of Nottingham, said the research showed for the first time that motheroffspring cattle ‘calls’ are individualised.

“Each calf and cow have a characteristic and exclusive call of their own,” Padilla de la Torre said.

“Acoustic analysis also reveals that certain information is conveyed within the calf calls – age, but not gender.”

The team studied two herds of free-range cattle on a farm in Nottinghamshire, with recordings made using highly sensitive equipment that gathered enough data to study for a year.

Further work may reveal vocal indicators of well-being or distress in cows, which could influence animal care policies, say the researchers, whose findings appear in the journal Applied Animal Behaviour Science.

Co-author Dr Alan McElligott, from Queen Mary University of London, said it is the first time that complex cattle calls have been analysed using the latest and best techniques.

“Our results provide an excellent foundation for investigating vocal indicators of cattle welfare,” he said.

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Ashburton’s Bailie Perriton starts a new chapter of his burgeoning motorsport career this weekend in the opening round of the New Zealand Superbike Championship at Ruapuna raceway.

In 2012 Perriton entered the national championships for the first time in the junior street stocks and four years later the teenager is set to run with the big boys on a Suzuki GSX-R 600cc.

“I can’t wait for this development year,” he said.

“My main goal for the year will to be to finish every race and finish in the top 10.”

If it’s anything like his initial development year on the 250cc, where he finished second overall, he could be looking

at top three rather than top 10.

Last year he took out the 250cc championship setting new lap records at all four venues and then came third overall in the FX300 Series in Australia.

Now on the 600cc machine he starts a new campaign.

His first taste of competitive racing came in two of the three rounds of the Suzuki Tri-series in December, producing some positive results.

The rookie unfortunately also decided to test the ejector seat exiting the hairpin but got back out on the bike, after some frantic work in the pits and managed a creditable ninth.

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In brief Wildcard for Nadal Rafael Nadal has been offered a wildcard into the Heineken Open, following his surprise first-round exit at the Qatar Open. The 2015 Auckland event is already showcasing the strongest field in its history – with seven players in the top 20 – but the addition of Nadal would take the event into another stratosphere. “It would be amazing,” said Heineken Open tournament director Karl Budge.

“Any tournament in the world would love to have a legend like Rafa and to bring him to Auckland would be something else.”

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Halberg finalists

By Jonathan Leask

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Ashburton junior athletes are about to join others from up and down the country for a record breaking 37th year of the Colgate Games.

The 2015 Colgate Games, known as New Zealand’s National Junior Athletics Championship, has received a record number of entries to the South Island Games at 4000 plus.

In total, the North and South Island Games have received over 8700 entries.

Nine Ashburton athletes will be in action at the North Island games in Wellington this weekend before returning to the South Island for next weekend’s South Island event in Dunedin where 33 juniors from Ashburton will head south.

Competing in Wellington this weekend will be four Pear-

sons - Amy, Mia, Ella and Ben Pearson; three Gibsons, Isabella, Rosaria, and Georgina as well as Jenna Borthwick and Jake Jackways making the biggest contingent from Canterbury – with 11 other athletes heading north.

The nine will be back in action chasing medals a week later with 24 other Ashburton athletes in a 433 Canterbury contingent.

Above - Isabella Gibson, 11, had a final training at the Ashburton Domain last night before heading to the North Island Colgate Games in Wellington this weekend.

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‘He could go down as NZ’s greatest batter’ An hour-and-a-half after New Zealand wrapped up another test series win at the Basin Reserve yesterday, two players were last to leave the ground.

The team had completed their team song – a post-win regular event – sprayed champagne and chased each other around the outfield like teenagers for a couple of minutes.

All had headed to the pavilion apart from Kane Williamson and BJ Watling, who departed side by side, chattering away. Fitting that, after their role in another superb test win, with their world record 365run sixth-wicket stand which ripped the test away from Sri Lanka.

Watling’s not big on effusive quotes and Williamson doesn’t like talking about himself so, with the test and series wrapped up, his captain did it for him.

“It’s hard while the guy is still so young to put this on his shoulders, but I firmly believe he could go down as New Zealand’s greatest batter,” Brendon

Kane Williamson

McCullum said last night of the Basin Reserve man of the match.

“He’s a phenomenal talent and such a level-headed guy who thinks first and foremost about the team and how he can contribute to the team.

He’s ticking off some amazing statistics and doing it in quite a strong leadership position within our group”.

Williamson doesn’t show his emotions much, but McCul-

lum quipped that “he does have blood in his veins”.

“At times, it can be a little bit mistaken for not caring but you don’t fight that hard unless you care about something.”

Sri Lanka’s captain Angelo Mathews was left to bemoan some dreadful fielding – a key point of difference between the sides – but tipped his hat to Williamson.

“It was one player that made the difference. Kane batted bril-

liantly,” Mathews said. “But we have to grab those chances. We got a couple of sitters and paid the price. When you get your chances, you can’t let them go.”

McCullum was chuffed his team again display spirit to get out of a hole on the third day, when they were effectively 24 for five.

“It was an incredible test match,” McCullum said. “For so long we were miles behind the game and it took something pretty special for us to get out of trouble and then be allowed to dictate play.”

New Zealand wrapped up the 193-run victory over Sri Lanka yesterday to complete a 2-0 win in the two-test series.

Mark Craig took 4-53 as New Zealand bowled out Sri Lanka for 196 with a session to spare at the Basin Reserve. The Black Caps have not lost a test series since defeat in England in March, 2013. Since then New Zealand has record home series wins against India, the West Indies and Sri Lanka.

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SBW missing family Sonny Bill Williams’ move to Hamilton will be complete when his 2-month-old daughter and wife join him from Sydney in the next few days. The rugby player, speaking at Chiefs training in Hamilton yesterday, said he had been set up with a house in Hamilton and was looking forward to introducing his family to the city. His daughter, and wife Alana Raffie, were in the process of moving but it was taking a bit longer as they organised the newborn a passport. Williams said he was counting down the days and had been surprised that even the sleepless nights and nappy changes that come with parenthood did not bother him.

“It’s been crazy. I’m missing them so much.”

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Erakovic out Marina Erakovic is out of her home-town tournament but will head into the Australian swing with a positive outlook. Unlike in recent years, Erakovic won’t walk away from Auckland with a heavy heart and slumped shoulders, after a poor performance in front of her local fans. Yesterday, she came back well from a nightmare start and there wasn’t much in it, with opponent Barbora ZahlavovaStrycova slightly better on the big points in her 6-0 2-6 6-4 victory in just under two-and-a-half hours.

“There are a lot of positives to take out of it,” said Erakovic. “I fought really hard, did all I could and played to a good level.”

Tournament top seed and world No 8 Caroline Wozniacki booked her place in the quarterfinals with a straight sets win over American Taylor Townsend, while earlier in the day Venus William made it to the quarter-finals after dispathing Kurumi Nara 6-4, 6-1.

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Mixed pairs action Faye McKnight rolls up during the Aussie Mixed Pairs at the Ashburton Bowling Club yesterday.

The winners on the day were John Smart and Rosemary O’Sullivan (3 wins – 189 ends – 39 points) ahead of Roger Gutberlet and Wendy Watson (3-17-50) with Brian Williams and Leonie Spargo third (316-48).

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Keith bows out of nationals after loss

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Ashburton’s Sandra Keith’s National Open Bowls Championship came to a close yesterday morning with a first round loss in the fours in Auckland.

Keith skipped the quartet of Serena Matthews (Dunsandel), Margaret Simpson (Mangere) and Rae Hammond (Mangere), advancing to the post section

with four wins out of six in section play, only to be ousted in the first round.

They needed a one-point win in the sixth and final round to advance into the round of 18.

Keith and company then went down 12-19 to Karen Hema (Carlton Cornwall), Leigh Griffin (Victoria) Sarah Scott (North East Valley) and Bronwyn Stevens (Te Rangi),

with the victorious four winning again in the afternoon to advance to this morning’s quarter-finals.

After winning the pairs, Burnside’s Mandy and Angela Boyd had teamed up with Kirsten Griffin (United) and Sophia Fisher (Himatangi Beach) to go through section play unbeaten - including a win over Keith’s four and Meth-

ven’s Caro Wilson, but they too crashed out in the first round.

Keith made the post section in all three disciplines but was unable to come away with another national title.

Of more importance will be whether her play impressed the national selectors as she hopes for a Blackjacks recall when the team is announced after the end of the tournament on Friday.

Ashburton’s Hayden Roulston has been scratched from the national elite road cycling title.

Roulston was initially a late entry to defend his national men’s road race title, and a chance for a record fifth title, but after a tough training camp in Europe and his call-up to the Trek Factory Team for the Tour Down Under starting next week he withdrew.

A win would have brought him equal with veteran Gordon McCauley with five wins each, the most of any rider since the championship began 80 years ago, and could have provided a fitting farewell to Christchurch as the host of the event.

BikeNZ announced the nationals are moving to Napier in 2016. Roulston has won three of the five times Christchurch has hosted the event since 2010, with his previous and first title in Palmerston North in 2006.

The Mid Canterbury flag will still be flown by locals Jason Christie and Lauren Ellis.

The championships begin with the time trials at Lincoln tomorrow, with women’s road race over 120.5kms on Saturday The elite and under-23 men’s race on Sunday.

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Fun Boxing Day formula for success

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Well done, Ashburton. Well done.

Those of you (numbering about two or three) who pay attention to this column will have noted that prior to signing off for 2014, I made a passionate plea to the public of Mid Canterbury to get behind their biggest race day – Boxing Day.

For a few years now the meeting has been waning and crowd figures have on some occasions been smaller than the usual midweek workouts. But it would appear that the trend is being bucked.

Boxing Day at Ashburton last year was a great success – somewhat of a return to the olden days.

People flocked to the car park

and made their way into the main area to enjoy a great day of harness racing in the sunshine.

Walking around the carpark it was great to see people who were there to enjoy the racing as well as a few beverages and from what I can gather the incidents were few and far between, if even existent at all.

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that the meeting would ever be taken off the club, but seeing the sights of December 26 sure did reinstate that not all is lost when it comes to getting people onto the racetrack to enjoy what is an incredible spectacle.

Hopefully those of you who did go, but aren’t regular racegoers, will encourage others to follow in your footsteps at the end of this year and we can see

the meeting grow in stature again.

Credit also to the Ashburton Trotting Club team, who put in hours of work not only preparing the grounds and buildings but also making sure all the paperwork was signed so things could be all official. We didn’t quite get the completely full car park we hoped for, but things went pretty damn close.

7 0x084 Reachin’ Out (7) 56.5 .................M Coleman 8 3 Torba (6) 56.5...................... R Hutchings (a) 9 4x63. Twist And Turn (14) 56.5 ........... M D Plessis 10 995 Chinese Jubilee (12) 56.5 ..L Magorrian (a2) 11 095 Fantasy Jet (5) 56.5 ................... L Satherley 12 6 Chachar (10) 56.5 .......................T Thornton 13 6 Wraithorth (1) 56.5 ..........................R Myers 14 Redskin 56.5 ................................ Scratched 15 Eyes Of Love (4) 56.5 16 0 Fortune Kept (13) 56.5 17 4070 Salted Caramel (3) 56.5 18 9 Laseef (2) 56.5 7 4.09pm AJ’S EMPORIUM THE BAYS BEST BARGAINS R75 1400 $8000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 1400m 1 03Lx0 Freedom d (7) 59 ............................ S Spratt 2 181x8 Rising Force db (5) 59......... R Hutchings (a) 3 1917x Lady Sayyida db (1) 57.5 4 3610x Alessandra (4) 56.5 5 555x0 Irish Heartbeat tdm (6) 56.5 ...............M Hills 6 83121 Joanna d (2) 55.5 .....................A Jones (a2) 7 118x4 Oceania tdm (8) 55 .........................R Myers 8 31398 Kindaleica d (9) 54.5 .......................S Collett

9 67830 Waipipi Lad dm (10) 54.5 ...........M Sweeney 10 3x125 Marcelle (3) 54 ................................ R Jones 8 4.44pm C U @ MEZZ BAR RYDGES ROTORUA MAIDEN 1400 $7000, MDN, 1400m 1 Blue Wagon (18) 57 ...................M Cameron 2 5 Ester (5) 57 .................................T Thornton 3 Highlander (17) 57 .......................... D Nolan 4 Skyscraper (16) 57.............L Magorrian (a2) 5 08682 Malina (15) 56.5 ........................ M D Plessis 6 0x46 Arcade (11) 56.5 ............................. K Myers 7 4x6 Saraswati (8) 56.5 .........................P Holmes 8 x6765 Stage Door (13) 56.5 ..................T Abel (a4) 9 6x Our Redneck Rebel (10) 56.5 ......... S Spratt 10 5 My Secret (7) 55 ........................M Coleman 11 9 Laseef (14) 55 12 Angel In Bluejeans (12) 55......... L Satherley 13 Eyes Of Love (9) 55 ............ R Hutchings (a) 14 Minted Black h (1) 56.5 15 7 El Healo (6) 56.5 16 9x7 Endean Rose h (2) 56.5 17 4070 Salted Caramel (4) 55 18 770x9 I Gotta Hunch (3) 58.5 -

Today at Rotorua Raceway

Racing Rotorua Venue: Rotorua Meeting Date: 08 Jan 10 676 Apache Moon (2) 55 10 70x9x Single Glance h (12) 56.5 ....... R Smyth (a1) 2015 NZ Meeting number: 2 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 3 1.50pm RUCK N MAUL SPORTS BAR R65 1950 11 670x3 Got The Snitz (6) 55 ...................M Cameron and 6; 7 and 8 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 6, 7 and 8 12 450x0 Pattican (11) 55 ........................A Jones (a2) $7000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1950m 1 12.40pm SUMMER RACEDAY-21 JAN ARAWA 1 41506 Attica tm (3) 59.................... R Hutchings (a) 13 0x095 Elusive Boxers 55......................... Scratched PARK R75 2200 $8000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 2200m 2 0x713 Tiara (6) 58 ........................L Magorrian (a2) 5 3.00pm ATKINSON & DONALDSON PLUMBING 1 24x95 El Soldado (6) 59 .......................M Sweeney 3 010x7 Ambitious Hero (5) 58 ................M Cameron R65 1200 $7000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1200m 2 42502 Wattle Bay mb (5) 59 ................ M D Plessis 4 839x0 Lonely Boy (8) 58 ...............................M Hills 1 x49x1 Suarez td (6) 59 .................. R Hutchings (a) 3 02101 Crimson Prince t (1) 57.5 ............T Abel (a4) 5 1x880 Speedy Jax (4) 58 .......................T Thornton 2 46440 Neutron Star dm (2) 58 ................... K Myers 4 54507 Juggernaut Rock (3) 57 .............M Cameron 6 699x0 Ransoms Gold (2) 57.5 ................... S Spratt 3 33193 Dan The Man td (5) 57.5 ................. D Nolan 5 09035 Even Better (2) 54 ...........................S Collett 7 0x807 Skylla (1) 57 .............................. M D Plessis 4 0x790 Our Foxy Lady dm (4) 56 ................S Collett 6 00001 Le’vantos (4) 54 .................L Magorrian (a2) 8 x0088 Rock Express (7) 56.5 .................... R Jones 5 818 Sheselusive d (7) 55 ..................M Coleman 2 1.15pm MILLS REEF WINERY & RESTAURANT 4 2.25pm THE HITS 97.5 ROTORUA MAIDEN 1200 6 075x4 Pinzano (1) 55................................. S Spratt 7 75486 Staccato d (3) 55....................... M D Plessis MAIDEN 1950 $7000, MDN, 1950m $7000, MDN, 1200m 1 9x280 St Moet (5) 58.5 .................. R Hutchings (a) 1 Iwannadancelikehim (3) 58.5 .......... S Spratt 6 3.34pm NZB INSURANCE PEARL SERIES 3YO FIL2 6x6. Country View (7) 58.5 ..................... S Spratt 2 7x Astronomer (7) 58.5 ..........................M Chui LIES MAIDEN $12,000, MDN 3YOF, 1400m 3 0 Hold Your Tears (4) 57 ..................... R Jones 3 Cullch Forty Five (2) 58.5.... R Hutchings (a) 1 47L23 Snaptoit b (8) 56.5 ..............A Schwerin (a4) 4 770 Laekeeper (8) 57.........................T Thornton 4 9 I’m Bronson (9) 58.5 .................. L Satherley 2 52 All Razzle Dazzle (15) 56.5 5 5x663 Seline (3) 56.5............................M Cameron 5 5 Warner (5) 57 .............................M Coleman 3 2 Massofdash (9) 56.5 .......................S Collett 6 74934 Covered ‘N Bay (6) 56.5 ..........B Hutton (a2) 6 7 I Am Spartacus (1) 57 .....................R Myers 4 24 Viva La Jour (11) 56.5 7 0x0 Toy Story (9) 56.5............................S Collett 7 32x73 Out Of Friendship (10) 56.5 ...... M D Plessis 5 3 Hayley Ann (17) 56.5 ...................... K Myers 8 72333 Stars In Align b (10) 55 ...................R Myers 8 Fiftyfirstdates h (8) 56.5 ..............T Thornton 6 3270x Iffitel b (16) 56.5 .......................A Jones (a2) 9 44638 Daifuku (1) 55 ........................... M D Plessis 9 Kaharoa Rose (4) 56.5....................S Collett

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Thursday, January 8, 2015

■ CHERTSEY TROTTING CLUB TRIALS

Two-way contest for trials qualifiers

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Just the slimmest of whiskers separated first and second runners in a qualifying mobile pace at yesterday’s Chertsey Trotting Club trials.

There were just three horses in the field but only two in the race as the Grant Payne-trained Peraki a Flyin (left) and Love That Guest, trained by John Dunn, set a hot pace over 2400 metres.

For most of the distance the race belonged to Dunn’s Christian Cullen-Radian Guest three-year-old Love That Guest but in the dy-

ing stages of the race Peraki a Flyin cranked up the pace and mounted a serious challenge.

The Sands A Flyin-What a Sparkle four-year-old mare came from two lengths back on the bend for home, with Payne putting the foot to the floor. Over the final few metres the pair could not be separated, both finishing in 3.03.8.

Peraki a Flyin was given the judges nod by a whisker.

They ran the final 800m in 58.2 seconds and the final 400m in 29.4.

Oamaru harness Today at Oamaru Raceway

Oamaru Harness Racing Club Inc Venue: Oamaru Racecourse Meeting Date: 08 Jan 2015 NZ Meeting number: 8 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9; 10 and 11 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 5, 6 and 7; 9, 10 and 11 1 3.15pm NORTH OTAGO MOTOR GROUP F&M MOBILE PACE $6000, 3yo+ f&m c0 pace, mobile, 2000m 1 5 Pollyanna Blue Chip (1) fr ................D White 2 8x4 Charlotte Grace (2) fr .................... K Butt (J) 3 60823 Millwood Charity (3) fr ...........M Prendergast 4 Artistry (4) fr ....................................... R May 5 70040 Buono Amici (5) fr ............................R Keats 6 40260 Baby Fern (6) fr ....................... M Williamson 7 8000x Justasip (7) fr ................................J Geddes 8 09 Kwik (8) fr ......................................... G Telfer 9 33558 Royal Chance fr ........................... Scratched 10 88770 Brunswick (21) fr ...........................B Orange 11 82223 Dana Dynasty (22) fr ..................... K Cox (J) 12 0x855 Zoerotten (23) fr ........................... G O’Reilly 13 33344 The Stag’s Roar (24) fr............ C D Thornley 14 5000 Altissimo (U1) fr ........................M Purvis (J) 2 3.45pm ROYDON LODGE TROT $6000, 3yo+ c0 trot, stand, 2600m 1 6x905 Momentous (1) fr..........................J Versteeg 2 Wandering Star (2) fr........................ A Lowe 3 70006 Little Miss (3) fr ...........................T Jellyman 4 6248x See Ya (4) fr ..................................... J Smith 5 530 One Yankee Hall (5) fr .....................J W Cox 6 7x8 Love Struck Romeo (6) fr .................S Ottley 7 0 Heard The Whisper (7) fr..........P Williamson 8 Arran Chief fr................................ Scratched 9 758x Roydon’s Jewel (8) fr........................ D Dunn 10 0906 Beinn Tharsuinn (9) fr ..................S J Clarke 11 8 Franco Helios (10) fr ............... C D Thornley 12 24675 Illustrious Queen (U1) fr .................C McKay 13 04300 Jag’s Son (U2) fr ..................... M Williamson 3 4.20pm PGG WRIGHTSON STANDARDBRED PACE $6000, 3yo+ c0 pace, stand, 2000m 1 245 Magoogan (1) fr ................................. R May 2 3 Eastwood Crystal (2) fr .................... D Dunn 3 32 Igottastar (3) fr ........................ M Williamson 4 35263 Maximus Prime (4) fr........................S Ottley 5 44486 Applause (5) fr ....................................B Butt 6 8x573 Beale Street Boy (6) fr.................. S McNally 7 90 Franco Tariq (7) fr .......................... K Butt (J)

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8 54389 Franco Sanchez (8) fr .................T McMillan 9 00 Rosalee Franco (9) fr 10 6006x Shakey Loch (10) fr ..........................R Keats 11 x7482 Captain Thunderjet (11) fr ...............J W Cox 12 Jennifer Capriati fr........................ Scratched 13 09x49 Woodstock (12) fr ........................C DeFilippi 14 930x3 Speechless (13) fr ........................ G O’Reilly 15 5 Nomattermee (14) fr...................... K Cox (J) 16 Classie Regal (15) fr ...................J Young (J) 17 00079 Lucy Holmes (16) fr....................J Ovens (J) 18 85904 Jubilant Franco (17) fr ......................P Davis 19 30800 Billy Klondike (U1) fr..........................J Dunn Emergencies: Rosalee Franco, Shakey Loch, Jennifer Capriati, Billy Klondike 4 4.55pm LIS MARA MOBILE PACE $6000, 3yo+ c0 mob. pace, mobile, 2000m 1 7 Tuapeka Troy (1) fr ...........................S Ottley 2 008 Chasing Shadows (2) fr ............... G O’Reilly 3 08580 Here Comes Monkey (3) fr ..............J W Cox 4 00082 Holy Harry (4) fr ............................L O’Reilly 5 72002 Cimarron (5) fr.................................. D Dunn 6 63006 Gerald (6) fr.................................C DeFilippi 7 61043 Boomer Bailey (7) fr ................ M Williamson 8 5 Kingi Hone Kira (8) fr ................... S McNally 9 5x874 Young Mister Grace (9) fr .............. K Cox (J) 10 40452 Flagpole (21) fr.................................P Davis 11 43x08 The Emperor Robyn (22) fr ................ R May 12 07222 Valor Lustre (23) fr ........................B Orange 13 77000 Houdini (24) fr ............................... K Butt (J) 14 54940 Miami Heat fr................................ Scratched 5 5.21pm FAT SALLY’S PUB & RESTAURANT PACE $7000, 3yo+ c1 pace, stand, 2600m 1 65060 Westburn Jewel (1) fr ....................B Orange 2 96078 Halston Bromac (2) fr .................... A Armour 3 4x644 Lacroix Franco (3) fr ................ S Golding (J) 4 01860 Highland Reign (4) fr ...................C DeFilippi 5 58623 Midfrew Tarpediem (5) fr ............... K Cox (J) 6 x5389 Crimson Glory (6) fr ....................T McMillan 7 700x8 Georgie Mach (7) fr .............................B Butt 8 0x868 The Black (8) fr ....................... C D Thornley 9 67P51 She’s Got It (9) fr .......................M Purvis (J) 10 79916 Private Jones (10) fr.........................S Ottley 11 40454 Indian Arrow (11) fr .................... J Patterson 12 86096 Thatshowie Roll (12) fr ........ J Harrington (J)

13 22140 Sans Le Sou (13) fr ..........................R Alfeld 14 37262 Canndew (14) fr ...............................P Davis 15 23441 Bettor Me (15) fr ............................... D Dunn 16 89321 Scanreco Bay (16) fr .......................... R May 17 00588 Fastroundtown (17) fr .................J Ovens (J) Emergencies: Halston Bromac, Thatshowie Roll 6 5.57pm SPRINGBANK HANDICAP TROT $8000, 4yo+ c2 & faster discrhcp trot, stand, 2600m 1 56237 No Potato (1) fr........................ N Williamson 2 x3174 Holdon Toyaspurs (2) fr .........M Prendergast 3 67880 Clifden Clowers (3) fr ................... S McNally 4 558x3 Thebestlove (4) fr ..........................B Orange 5 32024 Clover Mac (5) fr .........................C DeFilippi 6 02179 Lavros Segil (6) fr ............................... R May 7 06044 Lothario (U1) fr ................................... D Butt 8 00378 Mum Beat Lyall (U2) fr .....................P Davis 9 7x565 Mokosun (U1) 10 .................... M Williamson 10 0150x Sir Lexington (1) 30 ................. C D Thornley 7 6.25pm SOUTHERN WINES MOBILE PACE $8000, 4yo+ c2 mob. pace, mobile, 2600m 1 07908 Iwannabebig (1) fr ..................... H Clarke (J) 2 16698 Fiery Lustre (2) fr ..........................B Orange 3 02141 Smart Caesar (3) fr ................. M Neilson (J) 4 97253 Ideal Arden (4) fr ...................J Anderson (J) 5 69819 Maybe Flyin (5) fr ........................C DeFilippi 6 80x70 Loose Cannon (6) fr ................... J Patterson 7 08765 The Lutts (7) fr ........................ C D Thornley 8 21230 Jacko (8) fr .......................................... J Hay 9 09086 Sonnetsson (9) fr .............................P Davis 10 x6908 Irish Kath (21) fr ............................... D Dunn 11 x2173 Bute Courage (22) fr .......................... R May 8 6.55pm PGG WRIGHTSON HANDICAP PACE $9000, 4yo+ c3 & faster discrhcp pace, stand, 2600m 1 11x00 Rakabolt (1) fr ..................................P Davis 2 11326 Mach’s Love (2) fr.............................D White 3 x4500 Star Black (3) fr ................................... J Hay 4 18792 Sterns Arising (4) fr ..........................S Ottley 5 5L047 Greenburn Creek (5) fr..................B Orange 6 x0384 Destined For Glory (6) fr .................... R May 7 99710 Seven Point One (7) fr............. M Williamson 8 55x55 Regulus (1) 10 ................................. D Dunn 9 22006 Live Life Betta (2) 10 ...........................B Butt 10 10054 Strike On Command (3) 10 ..... M Neilson (J) 11 90738 Jerry Garcia (4) 10 ........................L O’Reilly

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7.55pm CHANGEOVER MOBILE PACE $7000, 3yo+ c1 mob. pace, mobile, 2000m 1 10 Cerato (1) fr.....................................J W Cox 2 41244 Supriya (2) fr .................................B Orange 3 39931 Dag And Washington (3) fr ...............P Davis 4 50350 Spirit Of Chronos (4) fr .................. K Butt (J) 5 97004 Floreta (5) fr ............................ M Neilson (J) 6 38x8P Culinary Delight (6) fr .................... K Cox (J) 7 96160 Chantrey (7) fr .............................C DeFilippi 8 44503 Donegal Jimmy Dave (8) fr ..............S Ottley 9 x4412 Storm Maguire (9) fr ......................... D Dunn 10 00353 Bobby T (21) fr ................................... R May 11 52932 Alexy (22) fr ............................. M Williamson 12 88x00 Vega Sicilia fr ............................... Scratched 13 10 Beyond Belief (23) fr ........................P Court 14 00303 Billy Jack (24) fr...................................B Butt 11 8.25pm MORRISONS SADDLERY MOBILE PACE $5000, 6yo+ c1 to c3 mob. pace, mobile, 2000m 1 9080x Greshees Angel (1) fr..................C DeFilippi Gerard O’Reilly is down to drive 2 x3627 Vanilla Rose (2) fr ................... S Golding (J) Arden’s Attack (3) fr ..................... G O’Reilly Zoerotton in the first on the card 34 29087 190x3 Who Knows (4) fr ............................J W Cox at the Oamaru meeting today.

5 x005x Garbo (5) fr .........................................P Kay 6 50070 Fair Dinkum Bromac (6) fr ............. K Butt (J) 9 7.25pm MONARCHY TROT $7000, 4yo+ c1 trot 7 98809 Hudson Sully (7) fr .................. M Williamson 8 90110 Stans Day (8) fr ....................... C D Thornley jun.d, stand, 2600m 9 4917x Mike McKaid (9) fr ............................ D Dunn 1 25625 Space Ace (1) fr ................... C Ferguson (J) 2 07009 Maldarna (2) fr .......................... M Purvis (J) 10 4P663 Smokin Chick (21) fr.........................S Ottley 3 60690 Miri (3) fr.................................. T Lethaby (J) 11 70006 Givethejobtobarnsy (22) fr ...........J Versteeg 4 60860 Final Secret (4) fr .......................J Ovens (J) 12 50059 Westburn Warrior (23) fr................B Orange 5 34364 Sarah Palin (5) fr ..................... S Golding (J) 13 98824 Mighty Peruvian (24) fr ....................... R May 6 311x8 One Two Kenny (6) fr ......... B Williamson (J) SELECTIONS 7 22060 Prestine (7) fr ................................ K Butt (J) Race 1: Artistry, Charlotte Grace, Dana Dynasty, Baby Fern 8 x8903 Solar Sam (8) fr............................. K Cox (J) Race 2: Heard The Whisper, Love Struck Romeo, One Yankee 9 9142 Insignificant (9) fr ..................J Anderson (J) Hall, Roydon’s Jewel 10 46770 Martini (10) fr ..............................J Young (J) Race 3: Eastwood Crystal, Igottastar, Nomattermee 11 33021 Tehoro Ruby (11) fr ............. J Harrington (J) Race 4: Tuapeka Troy, Kingi Hone Kira, Boomer Bailey 12 95226 Natural (12) fr .......................... M Neilson (J) Race 5: Bettor Me, Sans Le Sou, Crimson Glory, She’s Got It 13 060x0 Gordon Trotter fr ........................... Scratched Race 6: Thebestlove, Clover Mac, Lothario, Mokosun 14 x8309 Mrs Twobob (13) fr .......................... I Lee (J) Race 7: Smart Caesar, Bute Courage, Ideal Arden, Jacko 15 08302 Shell Seeker (14) fr ..............M Anderson (J) Race 8: Regulus, Greenburn Creek, Mach’s Love 16 455x0 Gorilla Playboy (U1) fr ..................A Veint (J) Race 9: Prestine, Poppymalda, One Two Kenny, Shell Seeker 17 6122x Poppymalda (U2) fr ...............R McIlwrick (J) Race 10: Cerato, Storm Maguire, Donegal Jimmy Dave Emergencies: Miri, Gordon Trotter Race 11: Who Knows, Mighty Peruvian, Hudson Sully

Christchurch dogs Today at Addington Raceway

Christchurch Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Addington 1 2 Token Ace nwtd L & ........................... Wales Raceway Meeting Date: 08 Jan 2015 NZ Meeting num- 2 23485 Pint Sized Pixie nwtd ....................... B Dann ber: 9 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 3 F6 Rick’s Treasure nwtd C & ................... Fagan 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 4 43633 Tracey nwtd ...................................R Adcock 10, 11 and 12 5 Bella Grace nwtd C &......................... Fagan 6 Feral Coaster nwtd .......................M A Butler 1 12.10pm (NZT) SUPER PETS STAKES C0, 520m 7 4 Hip Hop Sofia nwtd ...................A Bradshaw 1 Benjamin Black nwtd................ A Botherway 8 7 Cawbourne Arney nwtd................C Roberts 2 33 Cawbourne Kenny nwtd ...............C Roberts 9 76 Homebush Riley nwtd ...............J McInerney 3 55238 Zahra Moon nwtd .............................S Stone 61 Lagoon Twist nwtd........................C Roberts 4 44244 Zulu Chanel nwtd .........................C Roberts 10 5 67555 Pass With Care nwtd ..................H Anderton 4 1.07pm ROBBIE’S BAR & BISTRO DASH C0, 295m 1 562 Opawa Venus nwtd L & ...................... Wales 6 72 Butterfly Terra nwtd C & ..................... Fagan 2 88224 La Ventana nwtd ...............................M Flipp 7 6355 Oak Spur nwtd ..................................P Scott 3 254 Pagani nwtd ......................................J Dunn 8 5F Birchbrook nwtd ............................R Adcock 4 682 Belfast Eejit nwtd H &..........................Taylor 9 76 Homebush Riley nwtd ...............J McInerney 5 3 Abbas Junior nwtd M & ...................P Binnie 10 Daisy Dear nwtd L & .......................... Wales x7242 Lagoon Victory nwtd ....................C Roberts 2 12.29pm GREYHOUNDS AS PETS SPRINT C0, 295m 67 73366 Marty McMoth nwtd M & ..................... Smith 1 4 Skillz Taylor nwtd .......................... L Waretini 8 45763 Know Luck nwtd .............................G Cleeve 2 25323 Token Jump nwtd L & ......................... Wales 9 573 Tell The Boys nwtd H & .......................Taylor 3 4 Boltin Archie nwtd M & ......................Jopson 10 Cawbourne Roman nwtd ...................C Weir 4 64343 Struggle Is Real nwtd H & ...................Taylor 5 1.24pm CHRIS & LISA EARL SPRINT C1, 295m 5 67F26 Hurricane Sandy nwtd................ D T Barnes 1 46624 Token Ray nwtd L & ........................... Wales 6 43457 Wrinkles nwtd............................J McInerney 2 52184 Zulu Mercedes 17.61 ...................C Roberts 7 Terra Alert nwtd C & ........................... Fagan 3 32272 Royal Apache 17.43 S & .................B Evans 8 52455 Sacajawea nwtd .........................D Stapleton 4 51 Adrenalin Kick 17.74 H & ....................Taylor 9 87582 Em Cee Dee nwtd .......................D Kingston 5 65217 Homebush Gru 18.06................J McInerney 10 Arbre Chene nwtd M &....................P Binnie 6 22145 Ohoka Faith 17.52........................ L Waretini 3 12.49pm THURSDAY PLACE PICK STAKES C0, 520m 7 86644 Look At Lucy 17.48 M & ...................... Smith

1 31217 Homebush Howard 30.62 .........J McInerney 8 83232 Business Review 17.56 ..............D Stapleton 2 143 Camside Gold 30.61 J & .................D Fahey 9 23346 Cala Rapita 17.55 .............................M Flipp 3 81733 Opawa Bro 30.38 L & ......................... Wales 10 15677 Glenn Is Goodesy 17.20 ................. M Grant 6 1.42pm EMERSON CONSULTANCY STKS C1, 520m 4 41228 Speedy Swede nwtd L & .................... Wales 5 54126 Cawbourne Miami 30.18 ..............C Roberts 1 67558 He’s A Jessie 30.64 ...................... I Fensom 6 45732 Kinloch Silver 30.69 S &..................B Evans 2 26144 Goldstar Junior 30.66 S & ...............B Evans 7 1465 Jinja Loch nwtd J & .........................D Fahey 3 34221 Zipping Jacob 30.68...........................C Weir 8 42476 Starburst Benny 31.67 .................... M Grant 4 52563 Know Clown 30.80 .........................G Cleeve 9 74622 Bruiser Bale nwtd ......................J McInerney 5 74562 Botany Liz 30.84 .......................J McInerney 10 55455 Darcy Brasco 31.20 .....................S Hindson 6 412 Opawa Diesel nwtd J & ...................D Fahey 7 65347 Opawa Natty 30.85 L & ...................... Wales 9 2.34pm CTV DASH C2, 295m 1 54625 Opawa Laz 17.61 L &......................... Wales 8 13372 Long Stockings 31.37 ...............A Bradshaw 2 11126 Mickey Tee 17.11 ..........................R Adcock 9 75175 Mega Volt nwtd................................ M Grant 3 75778 Caboul nwtd S & .............................B Evans 10 74546 Archie’s Comet 30.76 M & ................Jopson 4 53188 Opawa Lucky 17.34 L & ..................... Wales 7 1.59pm CONGRATS ABOVE ALL ON 2 GROUP 5 33643 Jasper Haka 17.27 ....................J McInerney ONE WINS DASH C1, 295m 6 3x233 Know Magic 17.38 .........................G Cleeve 1 43242 Kenny’s Comet 17.56 M &................... Smith 7 46445 Go Tommo 17.14........................D Stapleton 2 83632 Mull It Over 17.42 ......................R Blackburn 8 13462 Sweet Marylou 17.49 ................R Blackburn 3 172 Plutonium 17.50 H & ...........................Taylor 9 54871 Chaimbo 17.28..........................J McInerney 4 163 Run Zola 17.53 H & ............................Taylor 10 62864 Blitzing Flyer nwtd ......................... I Fensom 5 23722 Blazing Hot 17.81.......................D Stapleton 6 13155 Brooke Davis 17.49 ...................... L Waretini 10 2.52pm GARRARD’S HORSE AND HOUND STKS 7 73423 All About Jazz 17.87 .........................M Flipp C2, 520m 1 24633 Culvie Sprite 30.62 H &.......................Taylor 8 11 Cawbourne Danial 17.53 ...................C Weir 2 11354 Kinloch Power 30.35 S & ................B Evans 9 217 Hayley James 17.69..................... L Waretini 3 76337 Stich Up 30.80 S &..........................B Evans 10 11578 Lola Baxter 17.52 ......................J McInerney 4 13522 Nicky Noir 30.15............................... B Dann 8 2.17pm AMBER CLEANING SERVICES STAKES 5 2F426 Scotsome Power 30.99 M &..............Jopson C1, 520m 6 53137 Homebush Ninja 30.79 .............J McInerney

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26218 Earn Me Some 30.45 ...................C Roberts 12325 Lagoon May 30.57 .......................C Roberts 24675 Homebush Coral 30.85 .............J McInerney 64528 Banbit 30.57 M & ..............................Jopson 11 3.11pm THE TURF BAR SPRINT C1, 295m 1 22425 Peyton Sawyer 17.63 ................... L Waretini 2 23152 Black Sails 17.58 H & .........................Taylor 3 18 Codie Brea nwtd .......................J McInerney 4 45457 Starburst Hannah 17.55 .................. M Grant 5 366F5 Rockwood Archie 17.58 .............D Stapleton 6 71423 Norman Jewel 17.46 ....................C Roberts 7 13134 Nate Scott 17.37 ..........................A Waretini 8 43354 Eyes On Lulu 17.68 M & ..................... Smith 9 77447 Smoking Marley 17.38 ..............A Bradshaw 10 61682 Know Laughing 17.46 ....................G Cleeve 12 3.26pm SNOW-E MUSCLE, ENERGY & FERTILITY DASH C2, 295m 1 44442 Opawa Opal nwtd L & ........................ Wales 2 27886 Hanna The Spanna 17.23 .................J Dunn 3 32142 Collecting Money 17.38 .................. M Grant 4 64436 Homebush Paige 17.60.............J McInerney 5 51261 Ohoka Joka 17.42 ........................ L Waretini 6 63186 Uno Flash 17.42 L & .......................... Wales 7 32261 Rangitata Raider 17.60 ..............D Stapleton 8 67173 Elwood Sensation 17.65 ...........R Blackburn 9 63854 Culvie Boy 17.38 H & ..........................Taylor 10 36752 Know Favours 17.37 ......................G Cleeve LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

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Classifieds

Progressive Pairs December 12 Leads: 1. Bruce Hopwood, 2. Marius Cabout.

Skips: 1. Des Thomas, 2 Fred McCormick. December 20 Leads: 1 Millie Foggo, 2, Rod Jenner. Skips: 1 Trev Johnston, 2, Alan McIntosh. Also a great day was had at the Rakaia Tournament with Allenton Players taking out the firdt three places. Well done to them. Our Ladies also won the Rowntree Trophy in Christchurch so great stuff to the girls of the team.

Lead: 1: Rose Johnston, 2: Julie Trudgeon, 3: Judy Smith, Skip: Faye McKnight, with our reserves Jill May and Jan Hammond filling in when required. A lot of Tournaments to be played in January so we are going to be busy.

Ashburton Bowling Club The last weeks have seen a few good matches played and members have been placed in some Tournaments.

Playing in the two day Cotula Cup run by the Sub Centre, Roger and Diane Gutberlet, Noeline Woods and Gordon Sparks placed second with 6 wins 1 draw and 38 points differential. Gavin and Margaret Eder, George Crack and Winston Lee fifth with 6 wins and 13 points differential.

Saturday Roll overs have started again and Wally Porter, Ollie Collins and Bruce Ching took first and Lex Johns, Ted Connell and Jan Rooke were second. Corner to Corner was played and resulted in 1- Lex Johns 2Wally Porter, 3-Wally Porter.

Ladies Intermediate Singles start this week. Good luck to all those entered.

Ashburton Golf Club The golf course has remained busy with some super games and plenty of great scores. With one round to go in the Hydraulink shootout qualifying, the scores are the best they have been through the last five years.

At present 77 points is the cut off mark, but with lots of players poised just outside the top 19, with decent scores, and a good weekend coming up, I believe the cut off will move to the best of the 78 points or even 79.

Looking through the field at players who have already qualified for the final, you find an eclectic bunch, with five ladies, including a previous winner of the tourney in young Hilary. Also we have one previous first fence faller in my great friend Kenny C. Looks like a great plot for a form guide.

Southberry Coming up soon we have the club opening day on the 17th the Hydraulink shootout final on the 25th and the new RMF cup kicking off on the 31st, this looks like being a great tournament, rules and regs will be posted on the notice board soon.

Ashburton Rose Group Christmas meeting held on December 10 at the Catholic Community Rooms.

Before the meeting was a lovely Christmas Tea for the 16 members present, with apologies from five members.

Kathy Collie and Perry Jowers were thanked for the lovely floral arrangements they had made to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Ashburton Domain, which was on display for the celebrations.

We had beautiful roses on display for the second rose show. The next meeting on January 14 will be a floral art workshop, and members are to bring flowers, foliage etc. The meeting finished with the opening of gifts.

Rose Show results: November- 1: Pauline O’Leary, 2: Audrey McKay, 3: Marilyn Coley. December- 1: Audrey McKay, 2: Zena Clark, 3: Kathy ColiePerry Jowers. Christmas arrangements: 1: Perry Jowers.

Methven Bowling Club Brent Mayson got down to the last 8 in Canterbury singles. In the Cotulla Cup Classic Brent Mayson, Murray Smallridge, Bruce Harper and John Drayton were third. Jeff Nowell played in Dion Kiddies team and they were fifth. A great weekend of bowls and enjoyed by all players.

At the Jolly potter Alan Hill. Gary Eddington, Jim Lattimore and Bruce Redmond were Third.

Some of the club champs have been played. Men’s: Single winners Alan Hill. Rob Fensom pairs winners Gary Blackwell and Noel Bilby, Jim Lattimore and Bruce Redmond, David Isherwood and Neil Owen. Triples winners Craig Carter Simon Fleetwood and Jeff Nowell.

Ladies: Singles Di Callaghan has won three of her singles. Pairs Shirley Pagey and Barb Gawn More results next week.

Some of our bowlers are off to the centre pairs on Sunday. Congratulations to Shirley Pagey. Maureen Sullivan Raiona Isherwood, Wendy Suttie and Melva Middleton for your selection to play in the Quadrangular rep game next week.

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Mid Canterbury Bowls January 18 Men’s representative Mugford/Clark Beveridge At Lincoln, 9am Singles: R Fensom Pairs: L Neal, J Lattimore Triples: R Kane, J Bennett, B Redmond Fours: A Holmes, M Reid, R Jenner, J Limbrick Reserves: D McEvedy, CTubb At Leeston Pairs: C Carter, J Nowell Triples: P Whinham, B Mayson, M Smallridge Fours: G Eder, D Kiddey, G Clarke, D Kinvig At Southbridge

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Extraordinary Council Meeting An Extraordinary Council meeting will be held on Thursday 15 January 2015, commencing at 1.30pm.

The purpose of the meeting is to consider the Commissioner’s recommendation in respect to the New Zealand Transport Agency’s application to alter the designation over East Street between South Street and Dobson Street.

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1.30pm M.S.A. PETANQUE CLUB. Welcomes regular and new players. M.S.A. Sports Grounds, Racecourse Road.

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Family Notices 22 Ashburton Guardian DEATHS

SEWELL, William John (Bill) – Suddenly, at home on the farm, watching tennis, the game he loved, on January 6, 2015. Aged 69. Dearly loved husband of Janice. Loved father and father-in-law to Jason and Jane, Lisa and Martin (Lodge), and Blair.

Loved grandfather, poppa, and boat driver to Olivia, Lucy, Felicity, Tyler, and Keala. Treasured brother and brother-in-law of Peter and Maureen, Lesley and Les, Tim and Cherrill.

He will be dearly missed by all who knew and loved his friendship, sportsmanship, and youthful enthusiasm.

Special thanks to Kay, Felicity, and the St Johns and Fire Service teams for their help. Messages to the Sewell Family, c/- 377 Ruapuna School Road, R D 5, Ashburton 7775. The funeral service for Bill will be held in the Mayfield Presbyterian Church, Mayfield Klondyke Road, Mayfield, on SATURDAY, January 10 at 11.00am followed by interment at the Ashburton Cemetery.

SPARROW, Anthony Clifford (Hoover) – 1964 - 2015 Aged 50 years. Tragically taken from us as a result of an accident on January 3, 2015. Dearly loved soul mate and best friend of Kiley.

Admired, loved, treasured and respected second dad to Kelsey, Cameron, and Ella Turpin. Adored Pop to Aliyah.

“A real friend is someone who walks in; When the rest of the world walks out.”

Messages to 9 Goldrich Grove, Ashburton 7700.

Tony will be at his home and would love you to rock round anytime, unannounced.

“Please do so”.

A service to celebrate Hoovers life will be held at the Ashburton Event Centre, Wills Street, Ashburton on FRIDAY, January 9 commencing at 2.00pm.

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11pm One News 0 11:30 999 – What’s Your Emergency?

AO 0 12:30 The Midwives AO 3 0 1:40 Te Karere 3 2 0 2:05 Infomercials 5:35 Te Karere 3 20

CHOICE TV 6am Benny Hinn 6:30 Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction 7:30 No Kitchen Required 8:30 Sophie Grigson In Thailand 9am The Cook And The Chef 9:30 Candice Tells All 10am Carter Can 10:30 Million Dollar Contractor 11am Yard Crashers 11:30 Toy Hunter Noon Xtreme Endurance – Race To The Pole 1pm Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction 2pm Ben And James Versus The Arabian Desert PGR 3pm No Kitchen Required 4pm The View From River Cottage 4:30 Secret Meat Business 5pm My Dream Derelict Home 6pm Million Dollar Contractor 6:30 Kitchen Crashers 7pm Garage Gold 7:30 Rick Stein’s Far Eastern Odyssey Rick explores the Far East’s most diverse food cultures.

8:40 Thai Street Food With David Thompson 9:10 French Food Safari 9:40 Ottolenghi’s Mediterranean Island Feast 10:30 Garage Gold 11pm My Dream Derelict Home

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Midnight Million Dollar Contractor 12:30 Benny Hinn 1am No Kitchen Required 2am The View From River Cottage 2:30 Secret Meat Business 3am Kitchen Crashers 3:30 What’s Really In Our Food?

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6am Creflo Dollar 6:30 Little Monstar 0 6:35 Transformers Rescue Bots 0 6:55 The Amazing World Of Gumball 3 0 7:25 The Penguins Of Madagascar 3 0 7:50 Slugterra 3 0 8:15 Pair Of Kings 3 0 8:35 Jessie 3 0 9am Infomercials 11am Prankstars 11:30 The Family Tools Noon Happy Endings PGR 3 0 12:30 I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here 2pm My Kitchen Rules UK 3pm Mike And Molly PGR 3 0 3:29 Angry Birds Toons 3 3:35 I’m In The Band 3 0 4:05 Win Lose Or Draw 0 4:30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show PGR 0 5:30 My Wife And Kids 0 6pm Friends 3 0 7pm M A Knight’s Tale PGR 2001 Action Comedy.

Heath Ledger, Rufus Sewell, Mark Addy. 0 9:40 M The Wedding Singer AO 1998 Comedy.

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7am The Dr Oz Show 3 Dr Oz discusses how to change the body in unexpected ways, and how to burn 1200 calories in a single workout.

7:50 The Queen Latifah Show 3 Angelina Jolie’s surgeon shares breast-cancer prevention tips.

8:40 Infomercials 10:40 Rachael Ray 11:35 The Michael J Fox Show PGR 3 Noon M Taken – The Search For Sophie Parker PGR 2013 Thriller. Julie Benz, Naomi Battrick, Amy Bailey.

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7pm QI PGR 7:30 Country House Rescue Revisited Simon Davis advises the owners of British stately homes on how to diversify and raise revenue, and so secure the future of their unique properties for generations to come.

8:30 The Grand Plan 3 (Part 1) 9:30 American Idol 10:30 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 11:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 An irreverent daily sports and entertainment show.

Midnight Home Shopping 1:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 An irreverent daily sports and entertainment show.

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6pm Football – Asian Cup Preview 6:30 Football – A-League Highlights Show 7pm Sky Sport – What’s On 7:30 L Basketball – NBL Championship New Zealand Breakers v Wollongong Hawks. From North Shore Events Centre.

10pm Motorsport – Dakar Rally (Highlights) Stage Six. 10:30 Cricket – International (Highlights) Australia v India – Fourth Test, Day Three. From the Sydney Cricket Ground.

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9:30 Edge Of Alaska M Winter’s Grip.

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11:30 Nightmare Next Door M 12:30 I (Almost) Got Away With It M Got to Escape through a Toilet.

1:30 Secret Lives Of Stepford Wives M American Nightmare. 2pm Secret Lives Of Stepford Wives M Murder for Hire. 2:30 Ice Lake Rebels M 3:30 Yukon Men M Stan’s Gamble. 4:30 Deadliest Catch PG 5:30 MythBusters PG Dog Myths.

6:30 Edge Of Alaska M Winter’s Grip.

7:30 Gold Rush – The Dirt PG 8:30 Gold Rush PG New Blood.

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12:50 The Test AO 3 1:40 Antiques Roadshow 3 2:50 Whose Line Is It Anyway?

UK PGR 3 3:20 The Late Show With David Letterman 4:20 Tennis – ASB Classic (Highlights) Day Three. From the ASB Tennis Centre, Auckland.

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Anton Yelchin, Willem Dafoe. 9:20 One In The Gun 16 2010 Thriller.

Steven Man, Katherine Randolph.

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5:35 Over/Under MC 2013 Drama.

Steven Pasquale, Caroline Dhavernas.

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Will Smith, Jaden Smith.

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Midnight Below The Beltway MC 2010 Comedy. Tate Donavon, Noah Wyle. 1:35 The Face Is Familiar PG 2009 Documentary.

2:30 Over/Under MC 2013 Drama.

Steven Pasquale, Caroline Dhavernas.

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5:25 Non-Stop MVL 2013 Thriller.

6am Cricket – International (Highlights) Blackcaps v Sri Lanka – Second Test, Day Five.

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6:25 You, Me And Dupree MLS 2006 10am Basketball – NBL Comedy. Owen Wilson, Kate Hudson, Championship (Replay) Adelaide 36ers v New Zealand Breakers.

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Championships Drew Barrymore, Ben Stiller.

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Superbike racer Andrew Rudd is ready to race at Ruapuna in the opening round of the New Zealand Superbike Championship this weekend.

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Rudd’s on a superbike roll

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Andrew Rudd is hoping his flying form continues in the opening round of the New Zealand Superbike Championship at Ruapuna raceway this weekend.

Rudd anticipates some stiff competition but carries some good form into the superlite national championship series.

“It’s been a pretty good lead up to the nationals so far,” he said.

“A lot of racing and some

good results mean it’s been good preparation.

“I’m aiming for top five and will see how I go.”

At the 25th anniversary of the Greymouth Street Race in October he claimed a convincing clean sweep in the formula three, another name for the superlite class, on his Honda CBR 450.

He then had a good weekend at the Burt Munro Challenge in Southland winning the Teretonga Circuit Race and the Wyndham Street Race in the formula

three. Rudd’s good from flowed through into the new year taking out the 25th annual Nelson Street Race last weekend.

He had another clean sweep in the formula three racing and also had a win in formula two.

This weekend’s round at Ruapuna is another place he is showing good form- leading the King of Ruapuna race series, but despite his knowledge of the track he’ll be out there today making the most of the practice – “you can never get enough practice in” – and there is plenty at stake

in round one.

The first round also doubles as the New Zealand GP titles weekend, with five races as opposed to the three championship races that will occur at Levels in Timaru a week later and at the North Island stops – Hampton Downs and Taupo.

That means a good weekend can see riders make a strong start to their campaign and national GP title is up for grabs in race five of each class.

Rudd was seventh last year after he raced at Ruapuna, Lev-

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els and Taupo before mechanical problems ruled him out of the final round of the series in Manfeild.

“It happens. Everyone has their problems it is just part of motor racing.”

Rudd will have to contend with last year’s runner-up, Zane Agate, third placed Gavin Veltmeyer, fourth placed Jason Nairn, who are all back in the class, with Avalon Biddle in the mix after her maiden season racing in Europe.

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